Battery Charger Melts Without Being Plugged In

[Dryson]

In the video below the guy talks about a battery charger that he owned which melted. In the video the guy affirms that the battery charged was not plugged into an electrical outlet source, did not have any batteries nor did it have any type of electrical flow passing through it.

On top of that, the battery charger was in a cardboard box, which cardboard is a very good insulator due to its poor thermal conductivity.

So how did an electrical current pass through the cardboard box to cause the battery charger to over heat and melt? Either this guy is lying or he has found a new way to conduct electricity with the unit requiring any source of electrical input.

Someone should call NASA and alert them that a way to create an electrical charge within a poor conductor of electricity where the unit has no power flowing to it has been found.


https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3250437605004060&extid=sKTqZhsczi9rIFTB

 

[BillJ]

Someone should call NASA and alert them that a way to create an electrical charge within a poor conductor of electricity where the unit has no power flowing to it has been found.

Or people should figure out if this guys a liar (which he almost certainly is) before wasting NASA's time.

 

[Orac]

The universe is big, it's vast and complicated, and ridiculous and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

 

[Silvercrest]

And sometimes ordinary things happen under unobserved conditions and we call those miracles too.

Why would you call NASA before anyone else?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

It had to be a signal from one of those newfangled 5G towers......no wait, it was aliens. Definitely aliens.

I'd recommend calling a young priest and an old priest.

 

[StarCruiser]

And I'm going to assume he's off his meds again...again...

 

[XCV330]

I feel sorry for whoever has to field calls from Dryson-people at NASA. I mean, it's a job sure, but it's not what they signed up for.

 

[BillJ]

I feel sorry for whoever has to field calls from Dryson-people at NASA. I mean, it's a job sure, but it's not what they signed up for.

Probably one full time position is for Dryson alone.

 

['Q']

Dunno, maybe he left it under the sun.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

At least it's not a Dryson Sphere

 

[Kraig]

It could have been hooked up by Quality Assurance to inspect the device before it left the manufacturer. Capacitors in the power supply get charged, if nothing discharges the capacitor it will hold a charge. If the capacitor fails while the battery charger is still in the box, it can discharge and cause quite a smoke show, and a fire inside the plastic case.

 

[think]

In the 1950s, physicist Léon Brillouin published a landmark paper refuting the idea that adding a single diode, a one-way electrical gate, to a circuit is the solution to harvesting energy from Brownian motion. Knowing this, Thibado's group built their circuit with two diodes for converting AC into a direct current (DC). With the diodes in opposition allowing the current to flow both ways, they provide separate paths through the circuit, producing a pulsing DC current that performs work on a load resistor.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html

not wanting to make a whole new thread about this type of energy circuit I decided to put this here.

so yeah just like lots of Diode energy created in the circuit -- I looked into this back in high school - it seemed feasible kinda.

 

[XCV330]

In the 1950s, physicist Léon Brillouin published a landmark paper refuting the idea that adding a single diode, a one-way electrical gate, to a circuit is the solution to harvesting energy from Brownian motion. Knowing this, Thibado's group built their circuit with two diodes for converting AC into a direct current (DC). With the diodes in opposition allowing the current to flow both ways, they provide separate paths through the circuit, producing a pulsing DC current that performs work on a load resistor.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html

not wanting to make a whole new thread about this type of energy circuit I decided to put this here.

so yeah just like lots of Diode energy created in the circuit -- I looked into this back in high school - it seemed feasible kinda.

I am trying to understand how this doesn't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. They're saying the temp remains constant. meh.. something is off. if it IS acting more like a heat pump, then its fine. it isn't exactly as they are saying but it would work just as well as some nano-scale stirling motors in series. if it is a Brownian ratchet it won't work. or something else is going on they haven't taken into account.

 

[think]

I have seen designs of diodes in series in a kinda a mesh that would just gather random electrical energy --- but yeah it should get hot from doing that- Indeed.

 

[XCV330]

I have seen designs of diodes in series in a kinda a mesh that would just gather random electrical energy --- but yeah it should get hot from doing that- Indeed.

reminds me of this funny thing that Pynchon came up with in one of his novels. The Nefastis produced energy as a kind of heat engine, but was powered by an actual Maxwell's demon that only worked if you stared intently at a picture of John Clerk Maxwell with special sensitivity.